Walk Around Sighisoara, Romania

In Sighisoara, Romania, I went for a walk to find some "trees" that people said were really cool (and old)... but managed to find nothing. 5km into my walk I decided that I'm probably going the wrong direction, so decided to go into the forest to see if I there is anything. I turned on the GPS (homing in on my hostel)... put on my ipod and started walking through this enchanted forest. The hike was semi-strenuous, but very scenic... and at some points a little scary... thick forest and then all of a sudden... you get to a cliff's edge. There were a few moments that I had one foot dangling in the air.

So here I am walking... haven't seen people for hours... and just like in the horror movies... when the soundtrack is all nice and mellow... all of the sudden you see something run across your field of view at full speed. I'm usually pretty calm, but that scared the #$%@! out of me... especially having no clue what it was. The rest of the hike in the forest was quite rapid... but I finally got out, although in a pretty shady part of town. Lots of homeless kids living along side the railroad tracks in half destroyed buildings. As I continued to walk back to the hostel, I realized that quite some thought has been put into "hiding" this part of town from the tourists and travellers... this kind of stark contrast is not what most people want to see on their trip to beautiful Sighisoara.



Some rather uninteresting photos from the walk around Sighisoara can be seen here.